To the victor go the spoils. Works for racing. Works for piracy. Brad scams his own father and gets to go summer camp for starship racing. It starts out as a delightful getaway filled with competition and catching up with an old friend. Along the way, things go haywire. Several of the racers get kidnapped. Brad and his friend have to consider a new career in order to survive. Meanwhile, Mort and Chuck ply their respective trades. Chuck works a gig on a retrovert planet that's right up his alley. Mort tries to hunt down a mysterious, wealthy wizard with a penchant for purchasing suspicious goods. When the pair receive a cryptic distress call, both have to decide whether to cut bait and run to the rescue. Fly like an Ego is the seventh mission of Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem. It follows a mismatched duo of itinerant comedian and outlaw wizard as they roam the galaxy trying to eke out a living and stay ahead of the consequences of their actions. Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem looks back at an earlier era in the Black Ocean universe, and returning readers will get to see how some of their favorite characters came to be. Fans of morally gray heroes and slick talking conmen will love this series. Grab your copy before someone else does.

Previously published as The Early Years Professional’s Complete Companion, this new edition has been thoroughly updated and is the essential resource for aspiring and existing leaders of early years practice. Covering a wide range of theoretical and practical concepts, this book helps the reader consider how they can develop excellent practice within their unique setting. Divided into three distinct sections, the book begins by exploring the origins of early years practice, before discussing principles in development, social policy and child protection. The second section considers what constitutes high quality practice, and reflects on the role of emotional security, environment, and adults in shaping children’s learning and development. The third and final section examines how activities associated with continued professional development impact on teaching standards, before finishing with a discussion on international perspectives on early years practice. Key features include: New chapters on safeguarding, children’s rights, continuous professional development and international perspectives of early years practice. Chapter objectives, tasks and links to the Early Years Foundation Stage. Case studies with questions for reflection to promote critical thinking. New developments in the early years practice arena are outlined, including the emergence of Early Years Teacher Status (EYTS). This book is an essential text for those working towards qualifications in early years teaching and leading practice, and provides a flexible basis for tutors, trainers, assessors and mentors to further develop programmes of education and training. It will also appeal to teachers and practitioners interested in considering potential routes for continuing their professional development.

A ground breaking reality to check if you are eligible to Enter Heaven, followed by a Universal explanation on how & why the world exists. Guiding the readers to walk in the righteous path towards the Infinite Power, encouraging through every religion, faith, hope, belief you have carried towards the God, Lord, Allah or any other synonym’s to call the ultimate Supreme Power. This Book gives you a vision to become a Superhuman. The Author has crafted his art of defining the spiritual consciousness applicable to any or all dimensions. This book is a journey of the Soul before & after life. The most important feature about this book is, it has been dedicated to the Supreme power and not to the mankind. Author has encouraged religious, non religious and Atheist followers to upgrade their consciousness in such a way, where he wishes every soul not to be reborn but to unite with the Supreme Power in Heaven unconditionally.

23 dreams to introduce 23 condensed chapters of reflections on time-space spent well in England, America and the Netherlands--(2000-2011). World Piss or (Shannanigums Wave) juxtaposes a selection of prose from Fly's note-books, blogs and novels into a big soup, brewing since 2006 and presented here in it's 45th incarnation, edited for the special date 11/11/11. Re-njoy.

We?re all on the journey of life, but how do you know you?re going in the right direction? What?s your purpose? How do you discover it? Your life is your vehicle to design, drive, and maintain. Unfortunately, too many people end up back seat driving through life or driving other people?s vehicles and never take the driver?s seat of their own lives. Using the 8 Cylinders of Success? framework, this book and workbook will help you design the vehicle of your life and achieve your highest personal velocity in your personal and professional life.The 8 Cylinders of Success? is a framework created by Jullien Gordon based on academic research in performance optimization, self-motivation, positive psychology, and happiness and the in depth study of some of the world?s most successful people. The 8 Cylinders of Success? includes your: principles, passions, problems, people, positioning, pioneers, picture, and possibility. Together, they lead to your purpose, which is your personal GPS system that continuously guides you in the right direction throughout life.

When Nikki Giovanni's poems first emerged from the Black Rights Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and controversial poets of the era. Finally, here is the first compilation of Nikki Giovanni's poetry. It is the testimony of a life's work from one of the commanding voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape at the end of the twentieth century. From the revolutionary "The Great Pax Whitie" and "Poem for Aretha" to the sublime "Ego Tripping" and the tender "My House," these 150 mind-speaking, truth-telling poems are at once powerful yet sensual, angry yet affirming. Arranged chronologically, they reflect the changes Giovanni has endured as a Black woman, lover, mother, teacher, and poet. Here is the evocation of a nation's past and present -- intensely personal and fiercely political -- from one of our most compassionate, outspoken observers.